Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Buying a car in Fort Worth

Texas is the second largest state in the US by area after Alaska. It has a vast territory with a total area of ​​about 700,000 square kilometers.

One of the inherent stereotypes Americans have about Texas is that it is a largely rural area.

But you should not believe that in large rural areas there are very few people. In fact, the total population of Texas is nearly 24 million people, but it seems sparsely populated due to its vast territory. And in recent years, Texas has been the third state in the United States with the largest net population inflow.

This is because compared to other regions, Texas has a good security and living environment, and it is also one of the states with the highest happiness index in the United States.

Gulfstream G400 takes off from New York.

After a two and a half hour flight, we began our descent into Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is a civil airport jointly owned by Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, located approximately 15 miles from Dallas and 28 miles from Fort Worth. This is the largest and busiest airport in Texas.

There are five terminals at this airport, with American Airlines making up the majority of the four.

The airport itself is located in the United States and is also the first base for American Airlines, the world's largest airline.

The third largest airline in the United States, Delta Air Lines also has a terminal there.

is Terminal E where the Gulfstream G400 stops and lands. Terminal E has 36 boarding gates.

Sixteen cargo aircraft gates, which are boarding gates for air cargo.

There are 20 aircraft left, including 4 VIP boarding gates.

Delta Airlines offers VIP service to American Express, of course you can take advantage of one of these four VIP boarding gates.

Abel ignores signals from seductive flight attendant Katherine Jones. The reason is fear of losing safety.

He left the airport through one of the VIP gates with four bodyguards.

Outside the airport,

Express has prepared a car and driver for you.

This time, Abel returned home without telling his parents.

No one came to pick him up. Tarrant County Farms is about 40 miles from the airport.

In between we must pass through the city of Fort Worth, because Fort Worth is the county seat of Tarrant County.

A long street,

Of course, it's impossible to take a taxi.

Additionally, compared to other regions, the taxi industry in Texas is not very developed.

This is not a big problem in big cities like Dallas. Outside of these major cities, there aren't many taxis in Texas.

The nickname Great Campaign is not an exaggeration.

American Express provided him with two Mercedes-Benz cars and two drivers.

Limousine Abel agreed, but the driver was of no help to him.

He has four bodyguards who have been working with him for six months and each of them is an excellent driver. The only white person among them was a man from Fort Worth.

Get familiar with local road conditions.

So he simply let his white bodyguard Edward be his driver.

Black bodyguard George and the three of them in a car.

The remaining two bodyguards, Lin and Deka, were driving another car. Two cars and five people left the airport.

When I boarded the plane in New York, it was already half past ten in the morning.

After two and a half hours of flying, it was past one o'clock in the afternoon.

Lunch was eaten on the plane and it was delicious.

After all, it is a private plane. So after getting in the car, Abel directly told the driver of Edward's bodyguard:

"First go to Fort Worth, go there and buy a car. If I go back to the sedan, my dad will laugh at me."

also a native of Texas and the son of a small farmer.

Edward knew what his boss wanted to say.

"airy."

Leaving behind two drivers hired by American Express, the two cars began leaving Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Dezhou is sparsely populated and the roads are very spacious. Road conditions are also good and there are virtually no speed limits.

Thus, on a nearly 30 km long road, Edward only drove about ten minutes to reach Fort Worth.

Although Tarrant County is small, Fort Worth, the county seat, is the sixteenth largest city in the United States.

Together with Dallas, Arlington and other cities, it forms the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States.

Fort Worth in its early days was a bustling commercial center with the livestock industry and later the oil industry. Today, Fort Worth has become one of the best cities to live and do business in Texas.

Fort Worth, nicknamed "the beginning of the West," is also the center of American cowboy culture.

In other words, this is the purest base in Texas.

So the most driven vehicle in Fort Worth is not a comfortable sedan.

There are all kinds of pickup trucks everywhere, and there are people riding horses on city streets. In the middle, Abel also saw some American policemen on horseback, very Texan policemen.

By order of the boss, in the city of Fort Worth.

Edward went straight to the largest local car dealership.

It is the largest auto dealership in Fort Worth and also the largest pickup truck dealership in Tarrant County.

Parking,

Go straight into the bustling room. Soon, a blonde saleswoman arrived with a smile on her face.

"Hello gentlemen. We have Ford, Chevrolet, GM, Dodge, Toyota, and more. Whatever style you want, we've got you covered!"

She is a profitable blonde saleswoman and owns cars of these brands.

But actually

The models of these companies here cannot be considered 100% pickup trucks. But at least 95% of them are pickup trucks.

As the fifth largest city in Texas, Fort Worth has no shortage of luxury car or sports car salespeople.

Big farmers and oilmen can easily afford sports cars and luxury cars.

But as a cowboy hub, the most popular are pickup trucks and some SUVs.

Not to mention sports cars and luxury cars, Abel drives and sits too much in New York.

Let's go back to my hometown and ride a classic car from my hometown. In my memory, my old cowboy dad drove the ninth generation blue Ford F150 the most.

So he said directly: "I want to see the Ford F series, the newest model."

The blonde saleswoman smiled kindly: "It's okay, go this way. We have the latest 10th generation F series! All colors are available!"

She took Abel straight to the Ford pickup showroom.

As far as the eye can see, more than a dozen Ford pickup trucks of many different colors are neatly arranged.

There's the most basic model and that's also the F150, which is the best-selling model in Texas and even in the United States. There is also an upgraded version of the F150, the larger and more muscular F350.

Even the F550, which is more of a minivan than a pickup, has it.

Have you ever seen a truck with a length of more than eight meters, a height of more than three meters, a width of more than two meters and a wheelbase of more than five meters?

F550 is like that.

The models are very complete. Even the larger F650 is available, so it's not for nothing that it claims the #1 auto dealership spot in Fort Worth.

Abel came here simply because he didn't want to drive home.

He directly sold it to the blonde girl: "I need two F350s, the highest configuration one, one blue and one red."

Simple and straightforward but still a reminder that dad always wanted this car.

But because it was quite expensive, I never bought it.

So why not buy them together this time. I don't know if anyone has read it yet. I would like to request an introduction ticket

(end of this chapter)